Pudsey

PUDSEY (Borough)

Incorporated into : 1974 Leeds

Official blazon

Arms: Argent on a Chevron Vert between two Pairs of Shuttles saltirewise in chief and a Woolpack in base proper three Mullets pierced Or all within a Bordure engrailed Gules charged with eight Roses of the field.
Motto: 'BE JUST AND FEAR NOT'

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on January 10, 1901.

The chevron and pierced mullets are from the arms of the Pudsey family. The shuttles and woolpack allude to the chief local industry and the white roses are for Yorkshire.

The arms as used on a JaJa postcard +/- 1905

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